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floyd dylan wrote: Okay heres mine, this also includes my guilty pleasures, and are in no particular order.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 1,3, and 4

Friday the 13th 1, 3, 4 and 6

The Burning

Sleepway Camp 1 and 2

Child's Play

Creepshow 1 and 2

Dead Ringers

Scanners

Dead & Buried

The Fly 1 and 2

Lost Boys

Maximum Overdrive

An American Werewolf in London

Howling

Firestarter

Pet Sematary

Cat's Eye

Dead Zone

Critters

The Blob (80s remake)

Day of the Dead

Return of the Living Dead

Cujo

Fright Night 1 and 2

The Gate

Ghoulies

Evil Dead 1 and 2

Hellraiser 1 and 2

The Fog

Halloween 3 and 4

House 1 and 2

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Deadly Friend (corny but excellent death scene involving a basketball)

Poltergiest 1 and 2

Re-animator

Shining

The Stuff

Shocker

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Videodrome

Warlock

Watcher in the Woods

Oh man, you just took me back on a SERIOUS time trip! LOL My friends and I saw all of those movies together. Some we enjoyed more than others, but at the time we considered ourselves serious horror movie fans! Out of them all, Halloween is my all-time favorite. I still have trouble to this day watching that movie alone. LOL

The list is short but I don't like horror films. Most of them don't work for me. I keep trying to like them and sample them from friends who rave on about them but I must have been off sick that day at school when they were teaching this stuff. Watched Saw recently (again, trying to make the effort) and it wasn't bad. Despite it's low budget, the director seemed to be able to make it work.

Quote: Originally posted by Worst Nightmare sniff ....I thought it was good...

It always seemed like a pale immitation of Evil Dead 2 to me. That and when I was a kid the poster of the severed hand holding the key. I think the poster and vidoe box art was sometimes the best thing about '80s horror. Is there a website that groups it? I know Dave Brock has some video nasty box pics on his site.

Some of those Frightnerz have already been spoken for, such as Fright Night which is a classic...even Friday the 13th, as mentioned, but failed to mention was Friday the 13th '3-D'. In this new release the moviegoer was required to wear 3D glasses.

"1982 - Friday the 13th - Part III is released in more cinemas than any previous 3D movie had played all together making it the biggest opening afforded a 3D feature"

Though Amityville made it to 3D in 1983, it was a flash in the pan in comparison to Friday the 13th Part III in 3D.

Jason was real in ways we never imagined.

I remember the audience gasps and screams, and especially seeing half the audience duck, as 3D dark passages and unexpected corners, took us to the next level that was in your face horror, literally.

Quote: Originally posted by Adrian Jones Well, you can't go wrong with any of those. Sure, Halloween was released in 1978, but I am sure a lot of us didn't see it until the early 80s. There wasn't much difference between a movie set in the late 70s to one in the early 80s.

That's o.k. I'll just replace it with Evil Dead. What about Doom..anyone seen it?

Quote: Originally posted by Matt Joseph When picking a movie from a specific time period you just have to go with something indicative of that time, and Fright Night is pure 80s all the way. Other favorites of mine are Silver Bullet, The Lost Boys, Near Dark, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Return Of The Living Dead, and Poltergeist; all have a specific 80s flavor to them that can't be mistaken for any other decade. And as a refresher folks, Halloween is not an 80s film, it was released in 1978.

Well, you can't go wrong with any of those. Sure, Halloween was released in 1978, but I am sure a lot of us didn't see it until the early 80s. There wasn't much difference between a movie set in the late 70s to one in the early 80s.

When picking a movie from a specific time period you just have to go with something indicative of that time, and Fright Night is pure 80s all the way. Other favorites of mine are Silver Bullet, The Lost Boys, Near Dark, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Return Of The Living Dead, and Poltergeist; all have a specific 80s flavor to them that can't be mistaken for any other decade. And as a refresher folks, Halloween is not an 80s film, it was released in 1978.

The original Nightmare on Elm Street freaked me out when I first saw it. Now days, it's kind of funny to watch since it has Johnny Depp in it. Halloween got to me as well. I have a special place for Silver Bullet which isn't very good, but had to be one of the first horror movies I saw when I was young.

Nightmare on Elm Street Part 1, An American Werewolf in London and Frightnight. The part in Frightnight where the guy walked down the dark alley only to be cornered by the vampire, simply gives me the chill.